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Echo and noise suppression is an integral part of a full-duplex communication system. Many recent acoustic echo cancellation (AEC) systems rely on a separate adaptive filtering module for linear echo suppression and a neural module for…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-07 Karn N. Watcharasupat , Thi Ngoc Tho Nguyen , Woon-Seng Gan , Shengkui Zhao , Bin Ma

With the increasing demand for audio communication and online conference, ensuring the robustness of Acoustic Echo Cancellation (AEC) under the complicated acoustic scenario including noise, reverberation and nonlinear distortion has become…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-02-16 Shimin Zhang , Yuxiang Kong , Shubo Lv , Yanxin Hu , Lei Xie

We propose a nonlinear acoustic echo cancellation system, which aims to model the echo path from the far-end signal to the near-end microphone in two parts. Inspired by the physical behavior of modern hands-free devices, we first introduce…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-06-28 Amir Ivry , Israel Cohen , Baruch Berdugo

We introduce a synergistic approach to double-talk robust acoustic echo cancellation combining adaptive Kalman filtering with a deep neural network-based postfilter. The proposed algorithm overcomes the well-known limitations of Kalman…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-07 Thomas Haubner , Mhd. Modar Halimeh , Andreas Brendel , Walter Kellermann

With recent research advances, deep learning models have become an attractive choice for acoustic echo cancellation (AEC) in real-time teleconferencing applications. Since acoustic echo is one of the major sources of poor audio quality, a…

This paper presents a joint source separation algorithm that simultaneously reduces acoustic echo, reverberation and interfering sources. Target speeches are separated from the mixture by maximizing independence with respect to the other…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-04-12 Yueyue Na , Ziteng Wang , Zhang Liu , Biao Tian , Qiang Fu

Deep learning based techniques have been popularly adopted in acoustic echo cancellation (AEC). Utilization of speaker representation has extended the frontier of AEC, thus attracting many researchers' interest in personalized acoustic echo…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-10 Zihan Zhang , Jiayao Sun , Xianjun Xia , Ziqian Wang , Xiaopeng Yan , Yijian Xiao , Lei Xie

Distortion resulting from acoustic echo suppression (AES) is a common issue in full-duplex communication. To address the distortion problem, a multi-frame minimum variance distortionless response (MFMVDR) filtering technique is proposed.…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-10 Yuefeng Tsai , Yicheng Hsu , Mingsian Bai

The traditional adaptive algorithms will face the non-uniqueness problem when dealing with stereophonic acoustic echo cancellation (SAEC). In this paper, we first propose an efficient multi-input and multi-output (MIMO) scheme based on deep…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-08-16 Chenggang Zhang , Jinjiang Liu , Xueliang Zhang

The ICASSP 2023 Acoustic Echo Cancellation Challenge is intended to stimulate research in acoustic echo cancellation (AEC), which is an important area of speech enhancement and is still a top issue in audio communication. This is the fourth…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-25 Ross Cutler , Ando Saabas , Tanel Parnamaa , Marju Purin , Evgenii Indenbom , Nicolae-Catalin Ristea , Jegor Gužvin , Hannes Gamper , Sebastian Braun , Robert Aichner

The ICASSP 2021 Acoustic Echo Cancellation Challenge is intended to stimulate research in the area of acoustic echo cancellation (AEC), which is an important part of speech enhancement and still a top issue in audio communication and…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-03 Kusha Sridhar , Ross Cutler , Ando Saabas , Tanel Parnamaa , Markus Loide , Hannes Gamper , Sebastian Braun , Robert Aichner , Sriram Srinivasan

Acoustic echo and background noise can seriously degrade the intelligibility of speech. In practice, echo and noise suppression are usually treated as two separated tasks and can be removed with various digital signal processing (DSP) and…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-07-21 Xiaofeng Shu , Yehang Zhu , Yanjie Chen , Li Chen , Haohe Liu , Chuanzeng Huang , Yuxuan Wang

In this paper, we propose a novel normalized subband adaptive filter algorithm suited for sparse scenarios, which combines the proportionate and sparsity-aware mechanisms. The proposed algorithm is derived based on the proximal…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-24 Gang Guo , Yi Yu , Rodrigo C. de Lamare , Zongsheng Zheng , Lu Lu , Qiangming Cai

The mismatch between the numerical and actual nonlinear models is a challenge to nonlinear acoustic echo cancellation (NAEC) when the nonlinear adaptive filter is utilized. To alleviate this problem, we combine a basis-generic expansion of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-07 Guoliang Cheng , Lele Liao , Hongsheng Chen , Jing Lu

In many speech recording applications, noise and acoustic echo corrupt the desired speech. Consequently, combined noise reduction (NR) and acoustic echo cancellation (AEC) is required. Generally, a cascade approach is followed, i.e., the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-15 Arnout Roebben , Toon van Waterschoot , Jan Wouters , Marc Moonen

Personalized speech enhancement (PSE) is a real-time SE approach utilizing a speaker embedding of a target person to remove background noise, reverberation, and interfering voices. To deploy a PSE model for full duplex communications, the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-29 Sefik Emre Eskimez , Takuya Yoshioka , Alex Ju , Min Tang , Tanel Parnamaa , Huaming Wang

A new method for designing non-uniform filter-banks for acoustic echo cancellation is proposed. In the method, the analysis prototype filter design is framed as a convex optimization problem that maximizes the signal-to-alias ratio (SAR) in…

Sound · Computer Science 2014-02-19 R. C. Nongpiur , D. J. Shpak

The ICASSP 2022 Acoustic Echo Cancellation Challenge is intended to stimulate research in acoustic echo cancellation (AEC), which is an important area of speech enhancement and still a top issue in audio communication. This is the third AEC…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-01 Ross Cutler , Ando Saabas , Tanel Parnamaa , Marju Purin , Hannes Gamper , Sebastian Braun , Karsten Sørensen , Robert Aichner

People suffering from hearing impairment often have difficulties participating in conversations in so-called `cocktail party' scenarios with multiple people talking simultaneously. Although advanced algorithms exist to suppress background…

Noise cancellation is one of the important signal processing functions of any communication system, as noise affects data integrity. In existing systems, traditional filters are used to cancel the noise from the received signals. These…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-01-31 Adnan Quadri , Mohsen Riahi Manesh , Naima Kaabouch